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Urban futures in the north : a collective imagination of an arctic borderland
No full textThis dissertation is a cultural landscape mapping project, merging ethnography with urban planning and design to provide robust and relevant contextual data to inform those interested in a socially mediated urban future for Arctic communities. Design anthropology provides a framework for this pursuit, as it combines the tools from each parent discipline into a more well-rounded temporal and spatial practice. The approach bridges the enrichening human-focused aspects of ethnography with the future-oriented imagining of design practice at the scale of the landscape and the Arctic city.
The research concerns an Arctic borderland where Norway, Russia and Finland meet, centred on the town of Kirkenes in Sør-Varanger municipality, Norway. The transnational character of the location provides great diversity in possible cultural landscape readings. Further, the Arctic is highly vulnerable to climate changes and therefore acts as an extra dimension to the investigation. How do locals collectively make and perceive their world, and what are their aspirations for the future? How does the presence of international borders affect this cultural landscape? Is there anything particular about this Arctic location that contributes to the local sense of place and envisioned potential?
This ethnographic project accounts for voices in the border region and how local imaginings reveal distinct elements of what contemporaneously constitutes the cultural landscape. The pieces come together as a glimpse of continued everyday future-making in the border region. The work was also an ephemeral forum for sharing aspirations for the future. All stakeholders - citizens, architects, planners, urban designers, and politicians alike – could benefit from increased depth and clarity on local ideas and perspectives on Arctic urban futures and the paths used to negotiate and operate within these landscapespublishedVersio
OpenRemote Beta
No full textHow to design a system that will support the future operator in being aware of the situation of the assigned ships and being able to take control when an unexpected situation happens?
Autonomous vessels are now being used as a safer, cheaper, and more efficient way of transit through the oceans. Despite being capable of autonomous travel, the ships will still be closely monitored by operators in Shore Control Center(SCC), who can take control in critical and difficult situations. However, when regulating and monitoring multiple autonomous vessels, it is easy to become lost in the system’s complexity and fail to identify or notice unexpected events.
Through a lens of interaction design, this project aims to investigate how the operator can monitor and operate the ship from land with a complete view of their situation in order to take the appropriate action when needed. I’ll use an open innovative design approach, using the OpenBridge Design System as a starting point, and include users, OICL, other industry partners, and human factor experts to develop the project.
OpenRemote Beta proposes a solution that will assist the operator in monitoring multiple autonomous ships concurrently by keeping the system transparent so that the user can understand when to take action from a shore-based control center.submittedVersio
Meeting Trees - A center for processing Oslo’s felled city trees
No full textMeeting trees is a project that encourages people to view trees as an essential component of the urban environment.
With a series of spaces, a depot, a workshop, a cafe, and a garden, the project intends to create awareness and give an understanding of nature’s processes by providing a space where visitors can come and interact with trees and wood as a material.
This diploma explores and suggests a place where one may learn more about trees and discovering ways to reintroduce us with the touch and sense of our larger biological community. Eventually, change people’s perceptions of trees, and rethink our place in nature.submittedVersio
Norwegian Garden Cities: Yesterday, Today - and Tomorrow?
No full textThis book deals with the legacy of Norway’s garden cities. It tracks the origins of the Norwegian garden city movement and discusses the current status of built examples. Through a detailed study of one example, Sinsen Garden City in Oslo, the book links the garden city heritage to a number of ongoing scholarly debates on topics like densification, sustainability, socio-economic conditions, life quality and neighborhood satisfaction. While the garden city can be criticized for its association with sprawl and its failure to deliver affordable housing for all, it has gained new momentum as a green, resilient resource in light of theoretical platforms like garden ecology and circular heritage. A key argument in the book is that the garden city is a pioneering example of a serious commitment to the environmental cause through architecture and planning. It is a reminder of the importance of environmental awareness today, not least because it accentuates the climate crisis through changing conditions for gardening in the summer and skiing in the winter. A garden city may have its faults and inadequacies, especially in regard to housing prices and social exclusion, but the overall conclusion is that it represents a valuable legacy with endurable qualities that cities will be needing in the future too.publishedVersio
Ever felt like you don’t belong?
Get PDFAlmost 20% of the Norwegian population consists of immigrants or children of immigrants. In the coming years, this number is only going to grow bigger. Those already here, and those coming in the future will have to make use of public services at some point or another. As the Norwegian system is built on Norwegian norms, assumptions, and expectations, for people coming to Norway with a different background, navigating through the system can pose a challenge.
Maladapted services, as well as institutions not taking into account the challenges and needs of immigrants can lead to systemic exclusion in a way that might hamper the immigrants’ integration into society. As the Norwegian welfare state is built on trust and participation, it’s in the public sector’s best interest to ensure that their services and interventions don’t contribute to alienation, or even actively try to fight it.
“Ever felt like you don’t belong?” is a project looking at how the public sector can transform and adapt to the growing complexity of a diverse population by taking critical approaches and being conscious of the consequences of public services. My proposal is a set of principles to guide the public sector towards being one built on the values of inclusivity, self-reflection, and compassion.submittedVersio
Palle, min park! Palleparken på Nytorget i Stavanger som fortelling, medvirkning og redskap for strategisk planlegging
No full text«Palle min park!» ser nærmere på hva et midlertidig byrom forteller om en pågående byutvikling. Nytorget i Stavanger, der bilene til nå har rådet grunnen, skal gjøres om til bilfritt byrom i 2025. Som en forsmak på forvandlingen, fylte en park av paller den øvre delen av torget sommeren og høsten 2020.
Masteroppgaven ser på kommunens bruk av en midlertidig park som fortelling, innbyggerinvolvering og manifestering av strategisk planlegging, og prøver å finne ut om det midlertidige byromsprosjektet brakte planleggingen nærmere innbyggerne. Palleparken fungerte godt som iscenesettelse av hvordan en parkeringsplass kan vitaliseres og bli et mer menneskevennlig sted. Koronapandemien førte derimot til at parken var relativt forhåndsprogrammert, og estetikken vekket negative assosiasjoner hos enkelte. Etter demonteringen av palleparken var det ingen kommunikasjon om videre prosess, og den påfølgende debatten om utviklingen av eiendommene langs sørsiden av torget – det gamle politikammeret, trehusene og jugendhuset – førte til usikkerhet både om byrommets skjebne og om kommunens villighet til å lytte til brukerne.
Den iøynefallende palleparken lyktes på mange måter med å bringe planleggingen nærmere innbyggerne, men parkens ettermæle bærer preg av at eiendomsutviklingen og byromsutviklingen er separate prosesser. I den overordnede fortellingen om Nytorget fremstår palleparken mer som en løsrevet hendelse, enn som et overgangsrom mellom det gamle og det nye. Dersom temporære intervensjoner ledsages av en mer helhetlig kommunikasjonsstrategi, som bringer sammen alle aktører og agendaer, kan det midlertidige trolig få en høyere status i byplanleggingen – og bidra til å bygge bro både mellom fortid og framtid, og mellom byutviklere og bybrukere.submittedVersio
Setting the table
No full textThis project is about food, health and culture. Today we see that socioeconomic status is part of what affects your health and the length of your life. At the same time food is currently threatening planet health. This is closely connected with what and how we eat. Our goal has been to make healthy and sustainable food more available to all.
Through exploration of underlying structures we saw that much of the responsibility for solving many today’s problems related to food lies with the government. In several agreements and reports they pledge to make healthy and sustainable food more accessible for everyone.Therefore it is natural that the government should take a more active, collaborative, and facilitating role.
We propose three interlinked interventions of design meant to inform and inspire the government to support a shift from individual to collective food cultures. The proposal offers a mission-oriented way of thinking that builds on the participation of citizens.
The first intervention is a new institution, Mathuset, that facilitates healthy and sustainable food being available to everyone. It consists of public spaces in communities that provide an arena where one can learn about, eat, and explore food through practice, discussion, and collaboration.
The next intervention is policy recommendations to make change possible on a large scale. As this is a huge and ambitious proposal it needs to be explored and developed further. Therefore new policies should be prototyped through pilots of Mathus that would further inform and explore what these policies could look like and how a Mathus could be, what it does, and what to avoid.
The third intervention is a national vision for regenerative and equitable food cultures. Mathuset would be more reachable through using this vision as a compass. By providing people a direction it is easier to inspire engagement and get people on board. This promotes citizen-friendly food cultures that can have ripple effects in society.
This project will supply the government with a foundation for future work towards a systemic shift in our food system. In addition we hope this project will raise engagement and function assubmittedVersio
A Cemetery Near the Sea
No full textCemetery as a space that offers places for collective tombs is hardly seen in the history of China.
More often it’s a family tomb or a single tomb owned by the emperor or his relatives that takes up enormous space on a mountain, which in a sense tells the power of the owner. For citizens, their tradition is to find their own tombs in the mountains. Some might also decide to bury themselves with their beloved one. This somehow become a remaining problem for the contemporary life for the fact that the act of individual without guidance would easily cause chaos and misbehaviour. As a consequence, the government started to set up suburban cemeteries, which is a completely new typology that exists in China. And the result is a highly effective space which is too full for people to stay in the cemetery. While the cemetery arranged by the government helps resolve the problem of randomness, it itself becomes a problem with its huge spanning space, destroying the landscape of mountains and affecting the community living in the suburban area.
My proposal would work under this contemporary dilemma, providing a possible example for developing the cemetery in China in a different way - a cemetery that embraces the urban life, mourning spaces and nature. In the project, much effort is paid to create a place of calmness, where the landscape and the building integrate together. Beside the imagination of the cemetery, the proposal also investigates the ways to blend in with the context of the site - with an incomplete ancient city wall and a topography that tilting towards the sea. The result is a series of designs spanning from different scales, different themes that tangles together as an organic entity. The project is developed by my own interest in the cemetery as a neutral space to discuss the essential theme of human being, life and death, together with my inclination to explore an interdisciplinary approach. Hopefully, this project provides a convincing image for a poetic place for life and death
Topping out again
No full textAs we are living in a time of accelerating population growth, where we are asked to densify our towns and replace social recreational spaces and green infrastructure with the built environment. It has left me wondering what other approach we could take towards reaching this ever-growing demand without sacrificing these valuable spaces as we do today.
My thesis aims to create more housing in the form of vertical expansion of low-rise concrete apartment blocks from the 60s, without sacrificing the living standard of the existing residents, but rather by improving them.submittedVersio
Nabolag : AHOs urbane utredninger 2022
No full textNABOLAG er tredje utgave av AHOs urbane utredninger, en antologi
laget av studenter og lærere på videreutdanningsmasteren i urbanisme
ved Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. Publikasjonen er gitt ut i
samarbeid med Oslo arkitekturtriennale.publishedVersio